Music and Second Language Learning

Blogposts

• Louis Armstrong, "Jonah and the Whale", "Go down, Moses"
• Carole King, James Taylor, "You've Got a Friend"

Artists

at Lyrics Training:

• Beatles
• Cohen, Leonard
• Dire Straits
• Sting

Songs

Present Perfect

• Cat Stevens -- "Morning has broken" §§ lyrics training

Simple Past

• Beatles -- "Yesterday" (used to) / nostalgic past (Cf. Proust) (lyrics training)
• Lauryn Hill -- "I Used to Love Him"

Particles

• Armstrong, Louis -- Louis and the Good Book (1958) Cf. Creoliste blogpost
• Fitzgerald, Ella -- "Call the Whole Thing Off"
• Jones, Norah -- "Turn Me On" dailymotion
• Marley, Bob -- "Get up, Stand up" Santana & Friends
• Cars -- "Drive" Lyrics Training (dated pop music)

-ing

• Black-Eyed Peas -- "Shut up" -- lyrics training

Prepositions

• Leonard Cohen -- "Dance me to the end of love" live, Madeleine Peyroux cover, wikipedia on the origin of the song

Themes

Apology

• Elton John & Blue, "Sorry seems to be the hardest word", lyrics training

Chance

• Sting, "The Shape of My Heart", (with lyrics @ u2b )

Child Abuse

• Vega, Suzanne, "Luka", Lyrics Training

Equal Rights

• O'Connor, Sinead -- "War" a capella (Saturday Night Live)
• Black Eyed Peas + Sting -- "Union"

Friendship

• King, Carole -- "You've got a friend" | seasons, have to, got to, have got, wherever. from Tapestry u2b. James Taylor solo version u2b
  • lyrics training

Parenting

• Stevens, Cat -- "Father and Son" at Lyrics Training

Jealousy

• Gabriel, Peter -- "Shock the Monkey"
• Lennon, John -- "Jealous Guy" Lyrics Training

Hard Times

• Blacc, Aloe -- "I Need a Dollar" [1] | modals, simple vocab

Holocaust / Shoah

• "Dance Me to the End of Love" Leonard Cohen

Loss

• Cohen, Leonard, [2]

Love

• Lauryn Hill: I used to love him
• Lauryn Hill (to her firstborn): [3]
• Franki Valli / Lauryn Hill: [4]
• Clapton, Eric "Tears in Heaven" lyrics training

Love Gone Wrong

• Black Eyed Peas, Shut Up, Lyrics Training

Middle Passage / Slavery

• "Jonah and the Whale", traditional, Louis Armstrong, Louis and the Good Book, 1958. blog
• "Sometimes, I Feel like a Motherless Child", traditional.
• "Let My People Go", traditional. (cf. Jubilee Singers, 1872) Paul Robeson 193?, Louis Armstrong 1958, Russian remix

Cheer up

• Cohen, Leonard Hallelujah
• Peter Gabriel with Kate Bush -- "Don't Give up"
• John Lennon -- "Imagine" Lyrics Training
• Bob Marley -- "Three Little Birds" lyrics training
• Queen -- "Spread Your Wings" (fly away)